How to create a secure Litecoin wallet

How to create a secure Litecoin wallet

If you are reading this post, then you probably already heard of Bitcoin. So what is Litecoin? Both Bitcoin and Litecoin is a digital currency or in the crypto world, it’s known as crypto-currencies. If Bitcoin is internet’s gold, Litecoin is the silver.

Litecoins are stored in digital wallets which consists of online wallet for your day-to-day trading as well as offline wallet where you can stash it away safely. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to create a completely secure offline wallet stored in a thumb drive.

Guide to create a secure Litecoin wallet

To get started with this tutorial, all you need is a thumb drive that would be used to store your offline Litecoin wallet. I will recommend that you have more than one thumb drive as a backup just in case something happens to your main.

Step 1 : Ubuntu Operating System

The reason it is so secure is because we will be using Ubuntu operating system to avoid any spyware, malware and viruses. Download Ubuntu from the official site, ubuntu.com. Then you can move on to the next step. We will need the downloaded file later.

Step 2 : Universal USB Installer

Next is to make a bootable thumb drive. It is quite easy as we will use a simple program to assist us in creating the bootable thumb drive.

Step 3 : Create a bootable thumb drive

Step 3 : select your thumb drive. If it does not show up, restart the program with your thumb drive plugged in.

We want to start with a clean thumb drive, so under Step 3, tick the tiny box to format the thumb drive.

Click create and let it run.

Step 4 : Before restarting in Ubuntu

So you have everything ready to boot up your machine to run Ubuntu. But before you do a reboot, read on the following steps and remember our page at RumorsCity.com so that you can come back and refer, in case you need to.

Step 5 : Reboot to Ubuntu

With the thumb drive plugged in, restart your computer.

It should start Ubuntu automatically, if not, hit Esc or Del key while your computer is booting up.

Important: select Run Ubuntu from USB drive from the popup. Do not install Ubuntu so that you do not keep any information on your computer and will have a fresh operating system each time you access your wallet.

Step 6 : Download Litecoin client

Once you have successfully booted into Ubuntu operating system, the next step is to download the Litecoin client.

Step 7 : Secure your Litecoin wallet

You have everything ready and this is the final step where you store your Litecoin wallet securely in a thumb drive.

From the extracted folder, go to > Bin > 32. Launch Litecoin client which is the file named litecoin-qt.

After you have launched the Litecoin client, close it. The reason that we launch it is to create a wallet.dat file.

Open Home folder, which is like your explorer in Windows.

Move your mouse to the top left of the screen and you should be able to see a familiar Windows styled menu.

Select Edit > Preferences.

Tick on the box Show hidden and backup files. Then Close the dialog box.

With the hidden files visible, go in to home > .litecoin folder.

Look for a file named wallet.dat and right click to copy it.

Now while still in the program Home Folder, select your USB drive on the left side of the window. Right click to paste wallet.dat file to your thumb drive. You have successfully stored your Litecoin wallet on the thumb drive, secured from malware and viruses.

Step 8 : Retrieve your wallet

In future, in order to open your secure Litecoin wallet, boot Ubuntu from your thumb drive, then install Litecoin client like you did in Step 6. Instead of continuing to Step 7, this time you will need to paste the wallet.dat file from your thumb drive to .litecoin folder and you are good to go.

Important: Make sure you do not overwrite your wallet.dat file that’s stored securely on your thumb drive. To be safe, backup the same wallet.dat file on more than one thumb drive just in case something happens to the main. Then keep your thumb drive somewhere safe and you don’t have to worry about encrypting it.

Tips

You can continue using your online wallet for day-to-day trading, but only store an amount necessary for trading. And every now and then, you can transfer coins into your savings account which is your secured wallet on the bootable thumb drive. So you will have a peace of mind knowing no one can access to your savings while you were asleep and the only way for someone to steal your coins, will be to steal your physical wallet which is your thumb drive.